Time to Get Rowdy in South Philly for Some Playoff Basketball

Time to Get Rowdy in South Philly for Some Playoff Basketball

The attendance numbers and support shown to the Sixers this year were both improved tremendously over last year, but down the stretch of the regular season it waned a bit with the team struggling mightily at home. As Doug Collins pointed out today, there were plenty of empty seats on fan appreciation night a few weeks ago. That's not what he and his team are hoping for tonight.

Doug wants the atmosphere among the South Philadelphia faithful to be raucous this evening and after their impressive performance in Game 2, they've given you quite a bit of hope.

8:00 start time. I'll be heading down to the Wells Fargo Center to show my support for the team. Cheap tickets are still available. It's playoff basketball. It should be a show.

"I think anybody who knows me or who has played with or against me along the road here, knows that I am not that kind of player," Manning said, according to a statement released by the Flyers. "I am not out there intentionally trying to hurt people. I'm a guy who plays the game hard and I take pride in that."

Gretzky didn't mind seeing that fire in McDavid, saying competitiveness is part of what makes the great ones great. And he said the targeting comes with the territory of being a superstar. It was something he and Mario Lemieux dealt with, too.

"And Connor, he's going to get tested every night, but this is not new for him," Gretzky said Friday at the NHL board of governors meetings. "He's been tested since he was a kid and then playing junior hockey and now in the NHL and he's always responded and done his part."